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Now in its 24th year, Leadership Putnam County is a 9-week course designed to help understand community issues and provide information on how decisions are made and services are delivered in our county. Classes meet on location with representatives from law enforcement, education, government, utility suppliers, healthcare providers, manufacturers, business owners and more. Class sessions…
Charleston, West Virginia-based BrickStreet Foundation has presented the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics with a $3 million gift, the largest corporate gift in the College’s history. The gift creates the BrickStreet Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a financial commitment that will allow the College of Business and Economics to sustain its current…
More than half of all graduates of West Virginia’s public colleges and universities in the last 10 years were employed in just two industries, according to a new study published by the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and the West Virginia University Bureau of Business and Economic Research. Of the 55,675 graduates in the…
Seven West Virginia University Health Sciences graduate students showcased their research and skills on March 5 to visiting industry representatives and local investors in a dinner encouraging interaction and collaboration between rising student researchers, faculty and private sector representatives. The students represented pharmaceutical and pharmacological sciences, physiology and pharmacology, cellular and integrative physiology, basic pharmaceutical…
Fruit farmers and others interested in small fruit production, particularly grape production, are invited on a vineyard tour at Kirkwood Winery in Summersville hosted by West Virginia State University (WVSU) Extension Service Saturday, March 23. The educational tour is the first of a planned series of vineyard tours throughout the state intended to increase interest…
West Virginia’s high-tech economy will be on full display at the State Capitol from 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., on Monday, March 11 during “Innovation & Entrepreneurship Day,” hosted by Industries of the Future-West Virginia (IOF-WV) and TechConnect West Virginia. Media are encouraged to attend. Anne Barth, executive director of TechConnect West Virginia, said, “We…